With the Gulf spill, I absolutely merged in the time when I had that infection. I couldn't get out of the Gulf spill. There were so many similarities: the drains and the siphoning and the tubes. And also in the way the earth was hurt, the ocean was bleeding. Remember the video cams of the oil gushing? I couldn't stop watching that.

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

What I have found is that even when you try to transform existing structures they are so powerful they often overwhelm, seduce, and control you.

I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?

The minute someone tells you you have cancer, it's kind of like you die. You really do die. It's like you get that you're mortal.

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you keep you revolutionary spirit going. It's Emma Goldman who said, "Any revolution where I can't dance is not my revolution." I think that's the revolution we want.

We must stop being polite and behaved and find new inventive tactics to shift the paradigm. We are the majority.